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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
The Army of American Invalids.

The United States to-day has O very
large army of wealthy invalids, an army
that seems to be ON the increase, too, and
one that goes moaning up and down over
the land seeking health and finding none
Everywhere you go, where location and
climate have anything to offer or healing
waters containing anything aught of good
to assist nature in her struggle to lengthen
out the days of those who have more due
ats than digestion, you will see the anx-
ious eye and the hating gait of those who
have fought the fight for gain, and now,
crowned with victory and misery, find
themselves in the great national hospital
that moves about from Moosehead Lake
to Tacoma, to Los Angeles, to Jackson
vile, to Duluth, to Denver, to Ashevile,
to Minnetonka, to Santa Fe, to the Hot
Springs and the Cold Springs, to the iron
springs and the soda springs, to the dry
air of the mountains and the wet air of
the sea, with no home that they can call
permanent and no sure thing for the flu
ture but will contest and the long, star
less night Of death.-New York Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

The salaries of Partisan newspaper
rlen" vary greatly. Writers of tile stamp
Of Wolff, of The Paris Figaro; of Aurelien
Scholl, Of Saint Genest," and of "Igno-
tus" command 50,000f. or G0,000f year
from one morning Journal, to which they
furnish about three articles week Two
hundred francs is the average price for a
political leader by well known writer con-
tributing to one or two papers, and Roche
forts articles, be they long or short, bring
him |, 0O0f. apiece. The principal journal
lists are bound to their respective journals
by contracts running one, two, and three
years or more. Miscellaneous contribu-
tions are bought by the line, from to &c
sous being the price OF late the clever
journalists who have made a speciality of
pornographic literature have come to the
front, and those who have the largest fol-
lowing earn o richer revenue than the
heavy weights of the political world. Very
few Partisan journalists devote their ex-
elusive services to one paper; their sigma
lures turn up ia all sorts of out-of-the-
way places, and without doing very hard
work, the signers secure quite a comfort
able revenue. Cor. New York Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Turner the Tariff.

When in Congress Hon. Oscar Tur-
ner dIsected the tariff in this style:
under this tariff the farmer rises in
the morning, puts on his common
flannel shirt taxed 81 per cent, his
coat taxed 81 per cent, shoes taxed 35
per cent, hat taxed 80 per cent, takes
the water from bucket taxed 35 per
cent, and washes his face in a tin bowl
taxed 80 per cent, dries them on a
cheap cotton towel taxed 45 per cent.
He sits down to his humble meal and
eats from a plate taxed 90 per cent, with
a knife and fork taxed 35 per cent,
drinks his coffee with sugar taxed 6S
per cent, seasons his food with salt
taxed 90 per cent, pepper taxed 81 per
cent? he looks around on his wife and
children, all taxed in the same way
takes chew OF tobacco taxed 1919 per
cent, or lights his cigar taxed l1S per
cent; and, sir, even the sunlight from
heaven that pours into his humble
dwelling must come through the win
dow glass taxed 50 per cent and yet he
thinks he lives in the freest Govern
ment under the heavens, Then he
starts to work, puts the bride taxed 30
per cent on his horse and takes his
horse that has been shod, the nail used
in shoeing taxed SO per cent driven by
a hammer taxed ~ per cent, and hitch
es him to a pillow taxed 45 per cent,
with chains taxed So per cent and after
the days labor is closed and his family
all gathered around, he reads a chap
ter from his Bible, taxed rs per cent
and kneels TO God on an humble carpet
taxed 81 per cent, and then he rests his
wearied limbs on sheet taxed 45 per
cent, and covers himself up with a
blanket which has paid 104 per cent;
nor do these grasping manufacturers
stop here, but even the broom which his
good wife sweeps the floor with is
taxed 80 per cent, and the cooking
utensils used in preparing her hus-
bands frugal meal are taxed 40 per
cent, and the soda used to tighten his
bread taxed 80 per cent, she sits down
TO her sewing with her needle taxed 25
per cent, and spool OF thread taxed "a
per cent, to make calico dress taxed
5S per cent or if she wishes to knit
warm socks to protect her husband and
children from the bitter cold, she uses
yarn taxed 10 per cent, and thus daily
aud hourly must the hard earnings Of
the laborer go to satisfy the mal4ufsc-
turer and add to his ill-gotten wealth. /"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

Dispatch: Perhaps the closest obser-
vers OF the corners and goers of city is
It's hotel-keepers and clerks. We had
conversation with an enterprising
landlady Of jackson this week, and
lmong other pointers that she gave us,
was that Jackson needs an operahouse
or theatre building OF some kind; and
she argued in this way: ain the first
place, /" she said, "there are not so many
visitors TO the city as when we had a
irst class entertainment once or twice
week, and commercial men, and
other professional men whose business
calls them here, do not remain so long
as they would il we had attractions in
the way OF amusements, and conse-
quently do not spend so much money
IN the city," 1t does seem that an
operahouse is necessity IN city OF
Jackson size.
The above is equally true Of Clarks-
vile and the business men ought to
meet together and adopt measures for
building an Opera House that would
add attractiveness to the city.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
From the Financial Center.

I have suffered from catprrh and
bronchitis for ten years. l used almost
every kind of medicine that promised
a cure, but without any permanent re-
suit for good. Disappointed and dis
couraged, and almost without hope, at
the suggestion of friend, commence
ed to use of Swift's specific some three
or four months ago. | am delighted to
say lam entirely cured. l write this
that others may be benefited by my
experience, for have excellent health,
and have gained twelve pounds since
began the use of Swilt's Specific.
f. BAECoCK MILLER,
New York, Oct. %, 'S6. No. 6 Wall
Street.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

Farmers Home journal.


"Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, mayor
elect OF New YOsk, says that Tor the
first time in the history OF the country
the days wages OF a mechanic can buy
a barrel Of flour"
There's something at the bottom of
this that concerns every farmer.
Counting agricultural labor at its aver
age figure there can be no less than
three days represented in every barrel
OF flour. OF what superior staff is the
mechanic made that one day OF his
labor should equal three OF that of the
farmer? Is his calling more honorable =?
Is his hand more delft? 1t is claimed
that the operations of agriculture, are
but the application OF scientific prn-
ciples-the employment of chemical
agencies. IL is further asserted that ag-
riculture is the the most important OF
all occupations. Still the toll OF her
sons is valued at but a third OF that
which moulds the iron, attends the
lathe or drives thenail. One man tolls
ten to twelve hours day in the barn
ing sun Of summer, The product of
his labor is tobacco, for which lie gets
enough to pay lhim scarcely seventy
cents per day. Another, working
eight hours per day in comfortable
quarters, rolls the tobacco into cigars
and gets about three times as much for
his labor.
The farmer produces wheat with his
own or hired labor and the compensa-
ton for either is less than one dollar a
day, while the brakeman who stands ON
the train as it goes to market gets 1925,
and is not content with that.
There is but little land now being
cultivated that returns more than the
legal rate of interest. AS a whole,
taking the past two or three years the
gain is perhaps below rather than above
that.
II agriculture is the basis of wealth
why should it be the most neglected oil
all occupations2 Why should its de-
mand be unheard or UNDECIDED in legis-
lative halls Agriculture Is now sore
ly depressed while labor, employed in
other business, is better paid than ever
before. Still there is more, talk in Con-
gress about the demands and rights OF
AhDOI \uuoCtd1fChl ldbuIl thdh UiASAS
has been about the distresses and OPP
pressions Of those engaged in agrieul.
ture.
Every cent of increased wages OF rail.
roads laborers will be charged to the
farmers in the end in the shape OF adj
vanced freight rates. 1t may not be the
intention OF railroad management to do
so. 1t may be denounced by them as
wrong. But as long as the officials OF
states and cities stand by and see labor
organizations violate law and form mobs
to prevent Others taking places they
have left to 60 on strike, the railroads
have no alternative but to surrender
and, in the end, charge the cost to the
farmer, whose products they carry to
market and to the merchant whose
goods they return, who, in turn
charges it to the farmer in the.advanced
prices for supplies.
1t will take shaking up, such as old
Bald Mountain had not long ago, to
bring the farmers cause into notice,
but they ought to shake just about this
time or the go-betweens in the shape
Of labor organizations will still take the
bluk of their earnings.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Vest on Woman Suffrage.
From the Congressional Record.

What man can without aversion
turn from the blessed memory OF that
dear cid grandmother, or the gentle
words and caressing hand of that
blessed mother gone to the unknown
world, to face in stead the dea of a
female Justice of the Peace or Town
Constable ? For my part W ut when
/ go to my home-when | turn from
the arena where man contends with
man for what we call the prizes OF this
paltry world want to go back, not to
be received IN the masculine embrace
OF some female ward politician, but to
the earnest, loving look and touch of a
true women. want to 60 back to the
jurisdiction OF the wife, the mother,
and instead of lecture upon finance or
the tariff, or the construction of the
constitution, ] want those bl ed, low
ing detailsOf domestic life and of do
mestic love. \.
What we want in this country is to
avoid emotional suffrage, and what we
need is to put more logic into public
affairs and less feeling. There are
spheres in which feeling should be
paramount. There are kingdoms in
which the heart should reign supreme.
That kingdom belongs to woman-the
realm OF sentiment, the realm of love,
the realm of the gentler and the holier
and the kindlier attributes that make
the name OF wife, m )ther and sister
next to that Of God himself. Iwould
not, and | say it deliberately, degrade
woman by giving her the right OF
suffrage. | mean the word in its full
signi6cation, because i believe that
woman, as she is to-day, the queen OF
home and of hearts, is above the politi-
cal collisions of this world, and should
always be kept above them.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Starting n Paris Daily.

The fact Is that the cheapness with
which q newspaper can be brought out In
Paris is strong temptation for people to
try their luck rs editors and publishers
A very slender proportion of the large
Journals own either type or presses--even
The Petit Journal aiId The Figaro being
run off at Marinoni' Sand hence any one
with credit at printing establishment
can easily compete, in promptness of issue,
with the older organs Printing, too, is
cheap in Paris, and few thousand dol
lars will, as to Typography, put daily in
the ring for month or two at any rate.
Then, the advertising business being
habitually in the hands of agents, CON
tracts of some sort or other are easily
made, although something like q guar
antee of permanency is exacted by the
fermicrs before the fourth page of the
paper meets with any encouragement at
their hands.
In olden times it was not as light a
matter as it is nowadays to start daily
newspaper in Paris. The governments
permission had to be obtained; every copy
had to bear government stamp; and po-
litical discussion was SO hampered by gov
eminent censors that free expression OF
opinion was hardly to be thought of. All
this was changed long ago; the publishes
of each Partisan daily has, to be sure, IA
send an early copy of his paper to the pre-
lecture, but this is little more than for
mality, and the caution money and stamp
were abolished many years back.--New
York Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Where the Burden Falls

The New York Tribune has twice re-
Gently sought to lead its readers to be-
lieve that customs duties are "paid III
part by foreigners as means Of getting
access to American markets." The
protectionists should keep this sort of
stuff for the stump. To put it in cold
print is to expose themselves to instant
exposure and ridicule. The people in
this country who do not know that the
customs duties are paid primarily by
the American importer, secondarily by
the American buyer, and in the end by
the American consumer, no doubt al
ready vote blindly for perpetual war
tariff. Aud so there is really no need
of putting out false theories to catch
them.-N. Y. World.
The consumer pays, in addition to
the tariff, the profits OF the middleman
thereon. They charge the same profit
on the tariff tax as they do on the first
cost of the imported goods. This is one
of the "incidences" of tariff taxation,
and adds from 20 to 80 per cent. to the
duties levied on most imported goods.
The duty on sugar, foe instance, is
about Is per cent. and the middlemen's
profits on this tax increases the tax %
per cent. In other worde, il sugar
were placed on the free list it would
retail for about half what it now costs
the consumer, and the aggregate saving
to the American people on their sweet
ming, imported and domestic, would not
be much short OF 1C0000C00 a year
CHICAGO Tribune.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A Pointer"

When Col. Sellers gives you "poin-
ter" in stock my friends, leave them
severely alone, but when your own
feelings tell you that you have palpita-
ton of the heart, asthma, bronchitis or
estsrrh which unless checked are apt
to run into consumption, heed the adj
monition before lis too late. All the
diseases enumerated, and others, arise
from impure blood. Put the liver in
action, the largest gland in t,.J human
body, and you will speedily regain your
lost health, and your bad feelings will
disappear. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medi.
cal Discovery" will accomplish the
work speedily and certainly. OF your
druggist.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

A Kentuckian who had claim
against railroad in that state for $500
for damages in smash up was recent
ly visited by one Of the Company's law
yers, who inquired:
"What sort OF an injury did you sus-
tainP"
"Narvous injury sir"
ITO what EXTENT"
"Tosich an extent that my old shot
gun now wabbles about so much that
no longer ago than yesterday | shot at
rabbit and knocked over the best coon
dog in all Kentuck. I've riz on my
claim TO SIC }, and I'm goin' to push il
until somebody hollers for mercv."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Fortune Favors Faith in St Louis Man.

Many persons are made happy by
The Louisiana State Lottery Company,
Last drawing Fortune smiled upon Mr..
Cornelius Becannon, prominent and
esteemed citizen OF st. Louis, Mo-, who
has great faith in this Company. For
years he has invested in every prize.
Last month he event it alone,' and
came within one number of the capital.
He this month purchased another
ticket, and happily got one-tenth of
No. 81, $50, which drew $50, 600, and at
the office of the Company, was given a
check on the New Orleans National
Bank. -Nev Orleans Pccoyune, Jan. %.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
Curious Literary Discovery.

A singular literary discovery was made
at the monastery of Mektaristra, in the
island of ST. Lazarus, at Venice. A pet
monkey had climbed to the top of book
case, and was amusing itself in initiating
the grimaces Of venerable monk, who
was trying to induce it to descend The
animal, in q sudden freak, seized hold of
q bundle of papers and, breaking the
string, showered down on the fathers
head number of letters, the ink of which
had become yellow with age. They proved
to be long correspondence between Lord
Byron and the monks of st. Lazarus, with
whom he had once resided.-Chicago Tri-
hume
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A Shallow Device.
Greenup Herald.

Any proportion for reduction of the
National Treasury surplus which in
wolves the idea of ten dollars off OF
strictly necessities, is the shallow de-
vice of Congressman welded to the
scheme Of a high protective tariff. The
tariff needs just revision, and the peo-
pie will have it or have the scalps Of
the men who thwart their desires, or
treacherously barter away their just
rights and demands.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
For Nineteen Years.

For nineteen years l suffered with
eczema, or, as some of the doctors call
ed it, erysipelas, in my ankles. l en-
dured untold pains and anguish, with
only now and then temporary relief
from remedies applied by the best
physicians in the county. Eighteen
months ago | commenced the use OF
.Swift's Specific with but little faith, as
every other remedy had failed, | used
five bottles, and with grateful heart /
testify to-day that lam well. 1t brought
me relief when all else had failed.
Mrs. LUTICIA JACKSON.
Athens, Ga, Nov 2. 1886.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The Swift Specific Co.,
Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A Gift for All.

In order to give all chance to test
it, and thus be convinced of its wonder
full curative powers, Dr.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, will be, for limited time
given away. This offer is not only lib
eral, but shows unbounded faith in the
merits of this great remedy, All who
suffer from Coughs, Colds, Consump-
tion Asthma, Bronchitis, or any afiec-
ton OF Throat, Chest, or L ,ngs, are
especially requested to call at Owen &
Moore,s drug store, and get trial bot
tie free, large bottles 81.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A "stradlvarius" Concert.

Music lovers the world over will be In
terested TO know of the chamber concerts
given here recently by the Duke and
Duchess de Champoselice. II Is not known
that the like were ever given in the world
before, certainly not in Paris. The dis
tinguishing feature was not the quality or
length of the programme, but the fact that
all the instruments were made by the great
.Stradivarius. The duke Is connoisseur
in all respects musical, and has spent much
time and money In securing specimens Of
the Italian makers work. The musicians
who took part in his chamber concerts
gladly laid aside their own instru-
ments'to use those that the duke placed
before them, and the result was such an
Interpretation of the best quartets of Beet
hoven, Sehumann and Mendelssohn as has
never been equaled, in respect of sorority
and richness of tone, at least
The duke owns eight instruments of
Stradivarius, among which is violin re-
Gently bought in England for the modest
sum Of $4,000 francs, or, to put il more
comprehensibly, $4,000. 1t was known
in London as Bets Strad because Bets had
bought it over sixty years ago for 81, about
50. 1t was made in 1904, and has been so
well preserved that it looks almost like a
new violin. The duke is arranging for
other concerts, in which he expects to
utilize his eight instruments in the per-
formance of Mendelssohn's octette. The
number of violin collectors is not great
but their passion is, and it Is that that puts
the price to such an extravagant height
Among the most inveterate collectors of
this city is a woman whom few seem to
know much about, except that she is
always ready to strike a bargain for an
ancient instrument. Much of her trading
is done on the street Paris Letter.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A WINTER LAY.
The Winter. o the wInteri

The Winter. O the winteri
Who does not know Il welli
When day after day the fields stretch gray,
And the peewit walls ON the fell
When we close up the crannies and shut out the
cold
And the wind sounds hoarse and hollow,
And our dead loves sleep In the churchyard mold,
And we pray that we soon may follow;
In the Winter, mournfui Winter
Alfred Austin
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

A New York paper says that it h .
been fashionable to "cuss" the gas COM
panies since the first 6 company came
Into exis. nee, but it does not say that
the "crssing" was always prof ,ble.
The company generally goes along rem
dering modest (?) bills and furnishing
"cussable" gas, Just the same.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

THERE are two married and settled
men in the freshman class OF the Uni
versity of Georgia. Their families are
with them." Perhaps they got tired Of
waiting for the Blair bill to pass.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26
A Notable Exception.

Miss Cleveland expresses her belief that
people partake of the nature Of the food
they cat, but no one ever noticed that a
wolf becomes more lamblike through its
fayorite diet. -Kinderhook Rough Notes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

GIRLS are SO scarce in Dakota that the
Governor has become immensely pop
ular because his new baby has turned
ont tosbe a girl. The trouble about
Dakota girls, however, is that they are
liable to grow up with cold feet
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-02-26

Has attained q standard Of excellence which
admits of no superior.
Itcontains every Improvement thatinventivo
genius, skill and money can produce.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-10-05
NOTICE.

Sarah B. Small ct ais. vs.. Mar, vile City Mills
Company ct al.
TN THIS CAUSE 1T APPEARING FROM THE
/ allegations of complafhant's bill, which is
sworn to, that the defendent Mcbride Powell is
a nonresident of the state of Tennessee SO that
the ordinary process of law can not be served
upon him and that he is a proper party defend
ordered by the c, Il Nj. that publication be made
for four consecutive weeks FOR Mcbride Powell,
in the MARYvILLE TIMES, o newspaper published
in Maryville, BOunt county. Tennessee, requir-
mentioned cause on Monday the srdday OF OctO-
Der 1887, the same being rule day. or a pro-con-
fesso will be taken against him and this cause
set for hearing ex-parte.
This Sept. 18th, 1887. 80,
37-it j. A. GREER, y. q nj.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-10-05
Permanently of Type Writing.

The announcement made some time
ago that the type writer records in the
departments in Washington were fading
caused quite furry in nearly every big
otlice and business house in the city, as
the type writer is now quite extensively
used. There are, it is said, between
10000 and 1000 in use in this country.
Many wills are now prepared with type
writers, and it will thus be seen that
much depends ON the ink. Other legal
documents, scarcely less important, are
now written with the machine. After
considerable quiet investigation. it has
been found that the fault lay in the
quality of ink used. Black record rib
bons, whose ink is made of lamp black,
and the indelible copying ribbons insure
permanency for the writing. The mat
ter was 30 important that the examiner
of the chemical division of the United
States patent Office investigated it at the
request of the secretary Of the treasury.
He found that with the two ribbons
mentioned tho ink is driven more deeply
into the paper than with pen, and is
less susceptible to chemical agencies for
removing it. This assurance has again
brought the machine back into use, and
we are making wills with it the same a
before. Lawyer in Globe Democrat.